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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 16, 1958
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Άντζελα Μπάσετ
- アンジェラ・バセット
- Angela Evelyn Bassett
- 安琪拉·貝瑟
- 安吉拉·巴塞特
- آنجلا باست
Angela Bassett
2.8 Popularity
Biography
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she received an Academy Honorary Award. Bassett had her breakthrough portraying singer Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), which won her a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She had success starring in Boyz n the Hood (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and Music of the Heart (1999). In the following decades, she took on supporting roles in the drama Notorious (2009) and the action films Green Lantern (2011), Olympus Has Fallen(2013), and London Has Fallen (2016). She also played Queen Ramonda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). For the latter, she won another Golden Globe and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, Bassett has starred as Katherine Jackson in the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992). Her portrayal of Rosa Parks in the television film The Rosa Parks Story (2002) gained her a nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her performances in two seasons of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story earned her nominations for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, Bassett began producing and starring as an LAPD patrol sergeant, Athena Grant, in the Fox drama series 9-1-1. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Angela Bassett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Self
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
2025
7.2
Erika Sloane
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
5.3
Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
7.0
President Evelyn Mitchell
Zero Day
2025
6.5
Athena Grant
Doctor Odyssey
2024
9.5
Self
Inside the Dream: Mugler
2024
6.0
Self
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
8.2
Self (archive footage)
Butterfly in the Sky
2024
7.0
Lady Bayford
Damsel
2024
7.8
Narrator (voice)
Queens
2024
Credits
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
as Self
2025
0.0
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Erika Sloane
2025
7.2
Number One on the Call Sheet
as Self
2025
5.3
Zero Day
as President Evelyn Mitchell
2025
7.0
Doctor Odyssey
as Athena Grant
2024
6.5
Inside the Dream: Mugler
as Self
2024
9.5
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
as Self
2024
6.0
Butterfly in the Sky
as Self (archive footage)
2024
8.2
Damsel
as Lady Bayford
2024
7.0
Queens
as Narrator (voice)
2024
7.8
OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Angela Bassett
as Self
2024
0.0
Orion and the Dark
as Sweet Dreams (voice)
2024
6.5
The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
as Host
2023
4.5
MPower
as Self
2023
7.0
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
as Decoy (voice)
2023
7.7
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
as Self
2023
6.4
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
as Ramonda
2022
7.0
Good Night Oppy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
7.5
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
as Self
2022
3.7
Wendell & Wild
as Sister Helley (voice)
2022
6.6
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
3.0
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
2021
7.0
TINA
as Self
2021
7.7
What If...?
as Queen Ramonda (voice)
2021
8.1
Gunpowder Milkshake
as Anna May
2021
6.3
Malika the Lion Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
5.0
Marvel Studios Legends
as Ramonda (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
7.4
Soul
as Dorothea (voice)
2020
8.1
Between the World and Me
as Self
2020
7.9
9-1-1: Lone Star
as Sergeant Athena Grant
2020
8.0
Attorneys At Love
as Narrator
2020
0.0
The Imagineering Story
as Narrator (voice)
2019
8.1
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
4.9
Otherhood
as Carol Walker
2019
6.2
A Black Lady Sketch Show
as Mo
2019
7.0
Avengers: Endgame
as Ramonda
2019
8.2
The Apollo
as Self
2019
6.5
The Flood
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
6.7
Bumblebee
as Shatter (voice)
2018
6.7
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as Erika Sloane
2018
7.4
Red Table Talk
as Self
2018
6.4
Black Panther
as Ramonda
2018
7.4
9-1-1
as Athena Grant
2018
8.2
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
as Self
2017
1.0
The Snowy Day
as Nana (voice)
2016
7.0
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
as Self
2016
9.0
Close to the Enemy
as Eva
2016
5.1
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
as Self
2016
5.5
London Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
2016
6.2
Chi-Raq
as Miss Helen Worthy
2015
5.7
Master of None
as Catherine
2015
7.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Survivor
as Maureen Cranepaul
2015
5.7
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
5.3
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Dr. Kulinda (voice)
2015
7.0
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
White Bird in a Blizzard
as Dr. Thaler
2014
6.2
BoJack Horseman
as Ana Spanakopita (voice)
2014
8.5
Trailblazer Honors
as Self
2014
7.5
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
as Self
2014
1.5
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
0.0
Black Nativity
as Aretha Cobbs
2013
5.1
The Arsenio Hall Show
as Self
2013
5.7
Olympus Has Fallen
as Lynne Jacobs
2013
6.4
Betty and Coretta
as Coretta Scott King
2013
7.2
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
as Self - Special Guest
2012
7.3
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.6
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
as Self
2012
8.1
This Means War
as Collins
2012
6.2
American Horror Story
as Desiree Dupree
2011
8.1
American Horror Story
as Ramona Royale
2011
8.1
American Horror Story
as Monet Tumissee
2011
8.1
American Horror Story
as Marie Laveau
2011
8.1
Green Lantern
as Dr. Amanda Waller
2011
5.2
Jumping the Broom
as Mrs. Watson
2011
5.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Notorious
as Voletta Wallace
2009
6.9
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
as Narrator (voice)
2009
8.0
Nothing But the Truth
as Bonnie Benjamin
2008
6.9
Of Boys and Men
as Rieta Cole
2008
7.7
Meet the Browns
as Brenda Brown
2008
6.6
Gospel Hill
as Sarah Malcolm
2008
4.7
Meet the Robinsons
as Mildred (voice)
2007
6.9
Akeelah and the Bee
as Tanya Anderson
2006
7.1
Time Bomb
as Jill Greco
2006
5.5
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
2005
6.7
Mr. 3000
as Maureen "Mo" Simmons
2004
5.3
The Lazarus Child
as Dr. Elizabeth Chase
2004
5.5
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Masked and Anonymous
as Mistress
2003
5.0
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
4.8
Sunshine State
as Desiree Perry
2002
6.3
The Rosa Parks Story
as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
2002
7.0
Making "The Score"
as Herself
2001
0.0
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
as Ruby Delacroix
2001
5.7
The Bernie Mac Show
as Angela Bassett
2001
6.5
Alias
as Hayden Chase
2001
6.8
The Score
as Diane
2001
6.7
Critics Choice Awards
as Self - Presenter
2001
7.9
Boesman and Lena
as Lena
2000
5.0
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
as Groove (voice)
2000
5.8
Supernova
as Dr. Kaela Evers
2000
4.9
Music of the Heart
as Janet
1999
6.7
Our Friend, Martin
as Miles' Mom (voice)
1999
6.9
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
as Herself
1998
9.2
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
as Stella Payne
1998
5.8
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
Contact
as Rachel Constantine
1997
7.4
Waiting to Exhale
as Bernadine
1995
6.2
Vampire in Brooklyn
as Detective Rita Veder
1995
5.1
Strange Days
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
1995
7.0
Panther
as Dr. Betty Shabazz
1995
6.2
ER
as Catherine Banfield
1994
7.8
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner
1993
7.1
Passion Fish
as Rhonda / Dawn
1992
6.9
Malcolm X
as Betty Shabazz
1992
7.5
The Jacksons: An American Dream
as Katherine Jackson
1992
6.6
Innocent Blood
as U.S. Attorney Sinclair
1992
6.2
Critters 4
as Fran
1992
5.0
Nightmare Cafe
as Evelyn Wall
1992
6.0
One Special Victory
as Lois
1991
0.0
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
as Willie
1991
8.0
City of Hope
as Reesha
1991
6.6
The Heroes of Desert Storm
as Lt. Phoebe Jeter
1991
2.5
Boyz n the Hood
as Reva Styles
1991
7.6
Stat
as Dr. Willie Burns
1991
5.0
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
as Allison
1991
3.5
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
as Pat
1991
0.0
Kindergarten Cop
as Stewardess
1990
6.1
The Flash
as Linda Lake
1990
7.4
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
as Carla Peters
1990
7.3
In the Best Interest of the Child
as Lori
1990
1.2
Challenger
as Cheryl McNair
1990
6.2
Family of Spies
as Bev Andress
1990
5.8
The Simpsons
as Michelle Obama (voice)
1989
8.0
Snoops
as Laura Hale
1989
5.0
Alien Nation
as Renee Longstreet
1989
6.9
A Man Called Hawk
1989
6.6
thirtysomething
1987
6.1
Tour of Duty
as Lt. Camilla Patterson
1987
8.0
Liberty
as Linda Thornton
1986
5.0
F/X
as TV reporter
1986
6.6
Doubletake
as Prostitute at Headquarters
1985
4.5
Spenser: For Hire
1985
6.7
227
1985
6.7
The Cosby Show
as Sara
1984
7.0
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
8.3
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
7.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Wildwood
as General (voice)
N/A
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